{"id":195038,"date":"2026-03-17T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195038\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:29:15","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-ncaa-tournament-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195038\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know: NCAA Tournament in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The NCAA Tournament is in full swing and some of it will happen right here in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/03\/15\/florida-ucf-usf-and-miami-reach-mens-ncaa-tournament\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Four teams in the state of Florida will fight to win the next National Championship<\/a>. Those teams are the University of Florida, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida and the University of Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Games here in the Tampa Bay area will take place at Benchmark International Arena on March 20 &amp; 22.<\/p>\n<p>HERE ARE THE MATCHUPS:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/march-madness-live\/bracket?_branch_match_id=1499071649566196006&amp;utm_source=organicsocial&amp;utm_campaign=mbcg_marketing_organicsocial&amp;utm_medium=marketing&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz83N0UssKNDLyczL1s8vSk\/My0wuzk\/OTMyJT0pOt68rSk1LLSrKzEuPTyrKLy9OLbJ1zijKz00FAMwTzHZAAAAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Official NCAA Bracket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEFORE YOU GO TO BECHMARK ARENA:<br \/>\nBag Policy:<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to measure your bag(s). Any bag measuring over 12x12x12 is prohibited. Large bags, excluding small clutches, must go through an X-Ray machine before entry. If you have a medical or parenting bag that exceeds the dimensions, they are allowed but must go through additional search procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Prohibited Items (The following list of items are prohibited inside of Benchmark International Arena):<\/p>\n<p>If you plan on bringing a camera, small &#8220;point and click&#8221; cameras are permitted. All other cameras are prohibited. Video and audio recording devices and camera bags are also prohibited.<br \/>\nBinoculars are permitted. Binocular bags are not permitted.<br \/>\nVideo or audio recording devices<br \/>\nLaser pointers<br \/>\nWeapons of any kind<br \/>\nBottles, cans, or, containers of any kind<br \/>\nSharp objects, sticks, or poles of any kind<br \/>\nFireworks<br \/>\nPepper spray or mace<br \/>\nFood or beverage items<br \/>\nDrugs or controlled substances<br \/>\nChairs, folding chairs or any other type of individual chair for use<br \/>\nWrapped gifts<br \/>\nLarge banners or signs, banners or signs with objectionable language banners, or signs on a pole of any kind<br \/>\nNoisemakers and horns<br \/>\nWallet chains and long chains\/sharp spikes<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benchmarkintlarena.com\/arena-info\/a-z-faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">check the Benchmark International Arena Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The NCAA Tournament is in full swing and some of it will happen right here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8294,276,11474,275,110,135,137,136,2032],"class_list":["post-195038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-college-basketball","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}